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NEWS: All You Need is Kill Anime Stars Ai Mikami, Natsuki Hanae

I'm really just wondering why this show looks the way it does. It doesn't look like the light novel, it doesn't look like the manga, so why does it look like someone drew Code Lyoko characters from memory in the dark?

OK, so we got our Japanese voice announcement. Are we expecting an English voice announcement anytime soon? Because I'm waiting to see if Emily Blunt will reprise her role for the English dub for this anime given that Edge of Tomorrow was the live-action adaptation of All you need is Kill. I don't know who could voice Keiji and I don't expect Tom Cruise to be voicing the character for this dub.

Reminder: the cast of Scott Pilgrim live-action film reprise their role for the anime adaptation, so if they can do it. Then that mean it should be possible to have Emily to reprise her role for the anime film.

Honestly i doubt it since in the novel Rita is supposed to be American while the Movie made her British to align with Emiliy's nationality.

For example: Keiji was japanese, Dr. Carter was a Native American female and Bartolome was Latino-Asian; all of them became white dudes.

I doubt anyone from the live-action movie will be involved with the dub.

I really doubt they'll in any way acknowledge Edge of Tomorrow. It's a decade old movie that at best barely turned a profit (and pretty much the only reason it did is due to its performance in South Korea and China) and changed the title outside of Japan anyway, I don't think enough people care enough about the movie to even bother referencing it or doing stunt casting based on it.

Lizuka wrote:

I really doubt they'll in any way acknowledge Edge of Tomorrow. It's a decade old movie that at best barely turned a profit (and pretty much the only reason it did is due to its performance in South Korea and China) and changed the title outside of Japan anyway, I don't think enough people care enough about the movie to even bother referencing it or doing stunt casting based on it.

I want to remind you that Warner Bros Japan is behind the anime adaptation, and this is the same Warner Bros that was responsible for Edge of Tomorrow. So, I do expect WB (assuming they're handle the US release) to do some form of celebrity/stunt casting for the English dub and hence why I think they could bring back Emily Blunt to reprise her role for this one. I don't expect the other casts from the live-action movie to do voicing the other characters unless the move had some original characters made exclusively for the animated film and maybe they could try to put some of the live-action cast to voice those "original" characters as fanservice.

Of course, the other option is that they pull a Rick & Morty: The Anime or Suicide Squad ISEKAI and farm it out to Sentai given how they're constantly trying to cut corners.
I also want to remind you that we are living in an era where anime has become more mainstream then a decade ago in the US (hence the rise of stunt casting in anime).